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ThaumPenguin
Oct 9, 2013

Does anyone here consider their planned faction alignment when it comes to picking your primary weapon skill? For example, for me it feels weird to pick NCR or Legion when I'm doing an Energy Weapons run. It's just nice to use an arsenal that fits with what your faction favors.

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Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

ThaumPenguin posted:

Does anyone here consider their planned faction alignment when it comes to picking your primary weapon skill? For example, for me it feels weird to pick NCR or Legion when I'm doing an Energy Weapons run. It's just nice to use an arsenal that fits with what your faction favors.

I did in my first couple playthroughs before the DLC came out

After OWB and Lonesome Road though I just kinda do whatever

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!

Psycho Landlord posted:

Seems to be an overwhelming support for melee, which is a problem as I went guns/energy weapons.

I'm sure I can make it work though.

Melee/unarmed is super powerful, my third playthrough or so was melee and it got me to turn the difficulty up because I was smashing everything into paste

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Killing Caesar is a pretty bad idea if you're trying for an optimal outcome for the wasteland. If you're gonna do it then make sure you blast the fort with Helios One. Really show the lack in perspective in abandoning technology

Servetus
Apr 1, 2010

Gaius Marius posted:

Killing Caesar is a pretty bad idea if you're trying for an optimal outcome for the wasteland. If you're gonna do it then make sure you blast the fort with Helios One. Really show the lack in perspective in abandoning technology

I'd rather beat them at their own game, all knife or machete work.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

Servetus posted:

I'd rather beat them at their own game, all knife or machete work.

Yeah, Helios One was a boondoggle and should rest in piss. loving Wunderwaffen.

I really do prefer my Anarchist Mad Bomber route where I C4, mines and time bomb the whole place.



e;
Oh and also a rifle, preferably suppressed to pick off survivors running around in a panic. Heads go pop. And plenty of grenades.

MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Apr 4, 2022

Psycho Landlord
Oct 10, 2012

What are you gonna do, dance with me?

2house2fly posted:

Melee/unarmed is super powerful, my third playthrough or so was melee and it got me to turn the difficulty up because I was smashing everything into paste

Oh I'm well aware and I think my single strongest character ever went all in on the Industrial Fist for endgame. Just this run in particular is guns and spaceguns

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Psycho Landlord posted:

Seems to be an overwhelming support for melee, which is a problem as I went guns/energy weapons.

I'm sure I can make it work though.

Shotgun using that special ammo made of legion coins.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.
Fisto.

sad question
May 30, 2020

Assume the position, Caesar.

Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

sad question posted:

Assume the position, Caesar.
This'll never work; his head's already taking up all the space in there.

Detheros
Apr 11, 2010

I want to die.



I got the 2 caravan trophies (yes I'm playing the cursed PS3 port) last night after like 11 years of owning the game.

I still don't understand everything about caravan :v:

Doomykins
Jun 28, 2008

Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?
Same I learned enough to abuse a win like 30% of the time and ground it out watching videos on 2nd monitor. Caravan is intriguing but very unintuitive.

Detheros
Apr 11, 2010

I want to die.



It's a bit of fun to come from behind to win with a few clutch kings and jacks but the rules need to be front and center and not relegated to a note.

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



The 360 version of New Vegas came with instructions for Caravan in the handbook. I've actually played it with another human being and it's a fun card game, it's unfortunate that the AI is so bad that it becomes trivially easy once you know the rules.

Nobody Interesting
Mar 29, 2013

One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.


https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1513740296772751361

Is it time???

Is he leaving SA????

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

Shitposting transcends medium. You can shitpost on a refrigerator door or bathroom wall, if you feel so inclined.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

StandardVC10 posted:

Shitposting transcends medium. You can shitpost on a refrigerator door

hosed up way to talk about your five year old's art if you ask me.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

He's leaving game development to pursue a career in posting. Honorable.

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

CJacobs posted:

He's leaving game development to pursue a career in posting. Honorable.

o7

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Odds are, it's a game where he could shitpost anything and it might seem sincere, coming from the game he's developing.

So I guess I'm looking forward to Josh Sawyer's Hentai Jenga Simulator 2023 :syoon:

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Haydee JSawyer Remastered Edition.

Ironslave
Aug 8, 2006

Corpse runner

Arc Hammer posted:

Haydee JSawyer Remastered Edition.

Fierce arguments ensue over what your preferred choice of jiggle engine says about you.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Hey guys just wondering how to install nevada skies properly? Every time I look up the screen goes black

Edit; nvm it was haydees rear end blocking out the sun when I panned the camera

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Apr 16, 2022

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
I've watched several videos on how to play Caravan and have no idea how to. I got the achievements on 360, even though I'm not sure how. IIRC, I found something that worked and just kept repeating it until they unlocked.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I'm convinced it's because the background of the table that you play on makes the whole game ugly and hard to read. Cards and text are the same shade as the table with like no shadow underneath them. That plus a really terrible interface but at least you can learn the buttons- you can't as easily get rid of that poo brown yet neon glowing table you and Ringo throw down on.

edit:



There's just such a variety of shades, it's like the bristol stool chart!

CJacobs fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Apr 17, 2022

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
The idea of cards being scavenged from different decks is a really nice design choice, but I think its one of the few elements of the game that never clicked with me. I'd rather them have added a few of the cut for time features instead.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Caravan is quite easy to play... but it isn't very fun, and there is literally no other point to ever play it than for fun, so yeah, once I won like two games I never bothered again. If they wanted to make players interested in Caravan they should have made more interactions around it, as well as make the collectible aspect more pronounced, like with Gwent in The Witcher where every player has a short dialogue to set up the game, there are some tourneys etc. Which I understand isn't feasible for a game that was developed on a draconic timer, but then why even include it at all.

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
I guess its something to do if you get banned from all the casinos in the game.

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
I like the idea of the Fallout world picturing a courier that takes constant dives on Caravan and ends up spreading all of their casino earned riches throughout the Mojave, but in reality they just don't know how to play it and keep losing.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
Fallout New Vegas mod that replaces all combat with games of Caravan like that one witcher 3 mod

cheesetriangles
Jan 5, 2011





I really like Caravan and wish the game did a better job explaining it because it seems like no one I talk to ever understands it. I play every chance I get to.

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

When first playing NV, I figured out a way to win caravan every time against the AI, and I’m not that smart, so that indicates it’s not that great a game. On recent replay I completely forgot how to play though and realized I didn’t need the free money from engaging with it, so I skipped out on it.

Paul Revere 3000
Dec 8, 2007

So like a pimp I'm pimpin'
I got a boat to eat shrimp in
Nothing wrong with my leg
I'm just B-boy limpin'


For as dumb and creepy as The Frontier was, being able to kill the boss via a game of Caravan is actually pretty goddamn funny.

OldMemes
Sep 5, 2011

I have to go now. My planet needs me.
IIRC, there's an unused trophy in the game files called 'sore loser' for killing someone after losing a game of Caravan to them.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO

OldMemes posted:

IIRC, there's an unused trophy in the game files called 'sore loser' for killing someone after losing a game of Caravan to them.

That would get me to play a game of caravan all the way through.

Detheros
Apr 11, 2010

I want to die.



OldMemes posted:

IIRC, there's an unused trophy in the game files called 'sore loser' for killing someone after losing a game of Caravan to them.

Replace Artful Pocketer with this holy poo poo.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
what if caravan had a dedicated button to flip the table and draw your gun

Mr. Prokosch
Feb 14, 2012

Behold My Magnificence!
You either know the rules to Caravan so you win every time, or you don't so you don't play.

Caravan is a weird game with a bunch of tricky plays and I'm sure someone could come up with a perfect deck and then a meta or something if it were real. But it's a lot of memorization of card powers and none of it matters anyway because the Caravan AI is abysmal. You can beat anyone every time with a basic understanding of the rules because it seems like they didn't read the rule book either and are just doing moves at random.

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anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

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